DevOps Engineer

Our client, a well-established and highly respected financial services organisation, is looking for a skilled DevOps Engineer to join their Information Systems team.

This role sits at the heart of their hybrid technology environment and is ideal for someone who thrives on automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.

You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust DevOps processes across both Linux and Windows environments, supporting legacy systems and modern, containerised workloads. The role offers exposure to Kubernetes, CI/CD maturity, infrastructure-as-code, and enterprise-grade systems in a highly regulated environment.

Duties:

• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps for both Windows (.NET) and Linux workloads, including containerised applications.
• Develop, maintain and optimise automation scripts using Ansible (Linux) and PowerShell (Windows) to streamline deployment and operational processes.
• Manage and support shared services infrastructure including message queues, object storage, logging platforms, and reverse proxies.
• Deploy, manage and scale containerised workloads on Kubernetes, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code principles for server provisioning, configuration management, and patching across environments.
• Administer and support Windows and Linux servers, including Windows servers hosting .NET APIs and Linux-based VMs running shared services.
• Monitor system health and performance, perform tuning, and ensure effective log aggregation and observability across all platforms.
• Maintain and optimise RDBMS databases from a DevOps perspective, including backups, automation, performance monitoring, and reliability.
• Implement security, monitoring, and compliance standards, including observability tooling, security hardening, secrets management, and patch compliance.
• Collaborate closely with developers, system administrators, and QA teams to improve delivery processes, participate in sprints and releases, support incident response, and provide guidance on DevOps best practices

Job Experience & Skills Required:


Qualifications:

• Matric (Grade 12)
• Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or relevant BTech(essential)

Experience:

• 36 years experience in DevOps, Systems Engineering, or a related role
• Strong Linux administration experience (Ubuntu, CentOS, or similar)
• Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Docker & Kubernetes (deployments, services, ingress, Helm)
• Azure DevOps pipelines, repos, and boards
• PowerShel
  
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